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Blaze Pizza
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 8, 2022
- address953 W Belmont Ave, Chicago 60657
Is Blaze Pizza clean?
Blaze Pizza is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 8, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Blaze Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 8, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • NOTED EMPLOYEE WITH LONG BEARDS AND NO BEARD GUARD. INSTRUCTED TO WEAR BEARD GUARD AT ALL TIMES WHEN PREPARING FOOD.Personal Cleanliness • NOTED EMPLOYEE WITH LONG BEARDS AND NO BEARD GUARD. INSTRUCTED TO WEAR BEARD GUARD AT ALL TIMES WHEN PREPARING FOOD.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN FLOORS ALONG WALL BASE AND UNDERNEATH EQUIPMENT, ESPECIALLY INSIDE THE WALK-IN COOLER AND FRONT PREP AREA.
When was Blaze Pizza last inspected?
Blaze Pizza has 14 inspections on record going back to December 12, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 6, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| September 8, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 22, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 14, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 12, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 23, 2017 | Pass | |
| February 3, 2017 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| June 2, 2015 | Pass | |
| May 20, 2015 | Fail | |
| April 11, 2014 | Pass |
Blaze Pizza vs Lake View
Lake View runs 68% clean across 2,211 tracked restaurants — 1,492 clean, 440 mid, 272 cooked.
Against the 2,211 spots Cooked tracks in Lake View, this one comes out cleaner than 36% of them.
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How Chicago grades restaurants
Chicago does not use letter grades. Every inspection ends in one of three official results: Pass, Pass with Conditions, or Fail. Pass with Conditions means violations were found but corrected on the spot or under a deadline — the restaurant is open, with homework. A Fail means serious violations went uncorrected, and it usually brings a re-inspection within days. Chicago also flags “priority” violations, the ones most likely to actually make someone sick. Cooked reads Pass as clean, Pass with Conditions as mid, and Fail as cooked, and shows the itemized violations behind each result.
Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated September 8, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.